Everest Quotes - Page 2

• The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.

  Mary Everest Boole

  Children, Real, Science

  Mary Everest Boole (1931). “...Collected Works...”

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• Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.

  Junko Tabei

  Motivational, Perseverance, Nature

  "Protecting the Places We Climb" by Phil Powers, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

  Junko Tabei

  Nature, Travel, Men

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• I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.

  Tenzing Norgay

  Mountain, Living My Life, Climbing Mount Everest

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks.

  David Breashears

  Rocks, Forget, Bigs

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• Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

  Reinhold Messner

  Nature, Travel, Climbing

  "All Fourteen 8,000ers". Book by Reinhold Messner, 1987.

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• But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

  Jon Krakauer

  Nature, Travel, Energy

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest

  Ari Fleischer

  Feet, Mountain, Gathering

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• No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

  Edmund Hillary

  Remember, Climbing Mount Everest, Mt Everest

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

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• People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Success, Work, Opportunity

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• You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

  Willi Unsoeld

  Nature, Travel, Sight

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• I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Mean, Guides, Guide Me

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• I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.

  Christy Turlington

  Dream, Hiking, Mountain

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• The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Climbing, Perspective, Trying

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• I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Thinking, Impossible, Fischer

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• The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

  Pete Dye

  Funny, Golf, Play

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• If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.

  Tenzing Norgay

  Hiking, Trouble, Climbs

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

  Tenzing Norgay

  Men, Shame, Climbing Mount Everest

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

  John Frankenheimer

  Two, Hiking, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Happiness, Mean, Climbing

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• It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

  Edmund Hillary

  Climbing, Bullshit, These Days

  "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

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• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  Edmund Hillary

  Feelings, Satisfaction, Firsts

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• Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

  Edmund Hillary

  Morning, May, Firsts

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• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Feet, People, Challenges

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

  Brian Blessed

  Adventure, Thinking, Danger In Life

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